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Otway Basin seismic petroleum exploration proposal in whale nursery 'a slap in the face'
Geoscience technology services company CGG formally submitted its permit application and environmental plan in late January amid a month-long campaign of community protests.
Published: Source: ABC South West VicTopic: Oil and Gasby Olivia Sanders
Storage needs still 'enormous' despite British-owned company's plans for 30ha battery park in regional Victoria
An expert says current battery developments only just scratch the surface of Victoria's energy storage needs, as Pacific Green Australia announces plans to construct a 30-hectare grid-scale battery park in Portland.
Published: Source: ABC South West VicTopic: Batteriesby Emily Bissland
TikTok star raking in millions of views by focussing on country football history and defunct ovals
Andy Munro has garnered a social media following of millions off the back of his reels documenting abandoned country footy grounds in Victoria and South Australia.
Published: Source: ABC WimmeraTopic: Sportby Emile Pavlich, Rebekah Lowe and Andrew Kelso
Alleged fake patient ruse 'standard procedure' for ministerial visits, Victorian MP claims
Liberal MP Richard Riordan is at odds with his own party leader over his defence of Colac Area Health, following allegations staff and their family members posed as urgent care patients during a ministerial visit.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Health Administration
Calls for more specialist training as doctors choose between dream jobs and staying home
When Lisa Gilbert was deciding what to specialise in, she had to choose between her dream physician job or staying in the region that had become her home due to limited training options outside the city.
Published: Source: ABC GippslandTopic: Healthby Natasha Schapova
Government investigates claim regional hospital staff and family posed as patients during minister's visit
Victoria's Department of Health investigates allegations "fake patients" were organised to appear at Colac Area Health's urgent care centre during a visit by the Health Minister last year.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Healthby Harrison Tippet
Activists petition to ban 'cowboy permits for cowboy operators' in the Otway Basin
A permit application for the largest marine seismic survey proposal recorded is under assessment at the same time the offshore regulator is investigating the company funding the project for alleged 2020 breaches in the Otway Basin.
Published: Source: ABC South West VicTopic: Oil and Gasby Olivia Sanders
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'Our footprint is there': Drawing a link between the waterbirds of Barmah-Millewa Forest and the sounds of life in Antarctica
Charles Sturt University scientist Dr Elizabeth Znidersic never expected to observe environmental parallels in her work studying threatened waterbirds in an Australian wetland and life on Earth's most southerly continent.
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TikTok star raking in millions of views by focussing on country football history and defunct ovals
Andy Munro has garnered a social media following of millions off the back of his reels documenting abandoned country footy grounds in Victoria and South Australia.
Source: ABC WimmeraTopic: Sportby Emile Pavlich, Rebekah Lowe and Andrew Kelso
Activists petition to ban 'cowboy permits for cowboy operators' in the Otway Basin
A permit application for the largest marine seismic survey proposal recorded is under assessment at the same time the offshore regulator is investigating the company funding the project for alleged 2020 breaches in the Otway Basin.
Source: ABC South West VicTopic: Oil and Gasby Olivia Sanders
Does the way you say 'France' rhyme with 'pants' or 'aunts'? How the Australian accent is changing
Australian voices really aren't what they used to be. Linguists and ABC presenters weigh in on the changes to Aussie voices and the death of the ABC accent.
Source: ABC NewsTopic: Languageby Angus Mackintosh
The picturesque Australian town where locals can’t afford to live
Apollo Bay is a tourist mecca whose population explodes roughly 10 times in the peak visitor season. But locals and workers without deep pockets say they're struggling to stay, exacerbating the pressures on those who remain year-round.
Source: ABC NewsTopic: Regional Communitiesby Jean Bell and Daniel Franklin
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Former Ballarat music teacher pleads guilty to sexually abusing student over several years
A court hears Damien Woods, 49, was a trusted member of staff at Ballarat High School and became a confidante of the victim-survivor, with whom he exchanged more than 110,000 messages, beginning when the girl was 13 years old.
Source: ABC BallaratTopic: Courts and Trialsby Matt Neal
Crime kingpin Tony Mokbel denies telling Nicola Gobbo he would become police informant
Crime kingpin Tony Mokbel tells a court he "100 per cent" did not tell then-lawyer Nicola Gobbo he was willing to identify corrupt officers and admit to being a drug trafficker.
Source: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trialsby Kristian Silva
Victorian man dies in hospital after two days in police custody
Victoria Police are preparing a report for the coroner, following the death of a 59-year-old man who had been in police custody.
Source: ABC GippslandTopic: Policeby Georgia Lenton-Williams
Big dog Rugar doesn't mind saving lives as long as the treats and pats keep rolling in
With pet blood products in constant short supply, donations from dogs such as Rugar are the difference between life and death at busy veterinary hospitals.
Source: ABC Mildura-Swan HillTopic: Animalsby Francesco Salvo
Urn containing ashes reunited with family who'd stored them in microwave sent to flood victims
The urn containing ashes was lost in Cairns two weeks ago after being stashed in a microwave that had been donated to flood victims. It took a little help from local radio before it could be reunited with the family.
Published: Source: ABC Far NorthTopic: Human Interestby Brendan Mounter, Charlie McKillop and Amanda Cranston
Three men plead not guilty to murder of drug dealer in robbery gone wrong
A Supreme Court jury is told a known ice dealer was gunned down in his car as he fled a "drug rip" — the ripping off of a drug dealer — north of Newcastle.
Published: Source: ABC NewcastleTopic: Crimeby Giselle Wakatama
Environmentalist slams approval of one of largest proposed greenfield coal mines
Whitehaven Coal's Winchester South coal mine in central Queensland's Bowen Basin plans to extract up to 17 million tonnes of coal a year for about 30 years.
Published: Source: ABC CapricorniaTopic: Mining (Rural)by Katrina Beavan
Police recover 4WD vehicle from WA cliff crash that killed two men
Authorities have recovered the wreckage of a four-wheel drive after it plunged over a steep cliff at a remote WA beach, killing Matthew Farr and Louis Eeles, and seriously injuring a third.
Published: Source: ABC Midwest & WheatbeltTopic: Policeby Alice Angeloni